Elysium's Geoff A. Cohen Quoted on Recent Supreme Court Patent Decisions
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August 27, 2014
Arrange an Expert ConsultAn article recently published in New England In-House explores the impact of the "flurry of patent and other intellectual property decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court." Writer Brandon Gee spoke with Elysium testifying expert Geoff A. Cohen, along with other observers in the field, to gain insight into how patent litigation could be affected by decisions such as Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, Nautilus v. Biosig, and Octane Fitness v. ICON Health.
Geoff suggested that, though the recent decisions have involved restrictions regarding patent eligibility, these restrictions are more "[a]nti-bad patent" than they are "anti-patent." According to Geoff, the current trend in patent rulings also "gives defendants more weapons"—for example, defendants facing allegations of patent infringement could ask a judge to find that an asserted patent is ineligible for being based on an abstract idea.
To read the full text of the article, see New England In-House.